Household rubbish
Bins and clean-up collections
Find everything about Council's household waste services, including collection schedules, guidelines for your three coloured bins, and tips for reducing your rubbish.
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Rubbish collection calendar
Our annual waste collection calendar shows your zone's days and dates of waste, recycling and scheduled clean-up collections, along with other useful information. -
Red lid rubbish bin
Your red lid bin is for all household rubbish that can't be recycled in your recycling bin. See a checklist of what can and can't go in it. -
Yellow lid recycling bin
Your yellow lid recycling bin is for glass, plastic containers (code 1-7), aluminium and steel containers as well as paper and cardboard. -
Green lid garden organics bin
Your green lid garden waste bin is for materials such as grass clippings, flowers, leaves, shrubs and prunings, small branches, twigs and weeds. -
Household clean-ups
Every year we provide residents with four household clean-up collections for large items that won't fit in your bins. Two are scheduled and you can book two more. -
Burgundy lid food scraps bin
Randwick City Council food scraps collection trial. Reducing rubbish going to landfill and increasing resource recovery. -
Food organics & garden organics (FOGO)
FOGO helps us recycle our food scraps and turn waste into compost that can go back to our farms, parks and sports fields.